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SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCED ANOTHER KOREA SUMMIT TO BE HELD

In an interview with CBS News Secretary of State Pompeo announced There will be another summit soon to discuss North Korean issues, including denuclearization. He confirmed that North Korea has agreed to allow in inspectors and that the world needs to hold North Korean President Kim to his statement. Secretary Pompeo said the US is working out the details and that a summit probably would not occur in October.

IRAN

When asked if there would be a meeting between President Trump and Iranian President Rouhani, Secretary Pompeo said  “…there’s not going to be a meeting. President Trump has said when the Iranians are prepared to talk about fundamentally changing their behavior, then he is of course prepared to talk to them.”

He added that statements by Rouhani saying President Trump has tendencies resembling a Nazi disposition and that the United States’ America first strategy is a symptom of weakness of intellect “indicate that they’re not in that place, and it is outrageous for him to say such a thing. For a Holocaust-denying country that is threatening Israel to compare the United States or its leader to Nazis is among the most outrageous things I have heard – and I will tell you, in diplomacy you hear a lot of them – the most outrageous things I have ever heard.”

Europe, China, and Russia have agreed recently to create a back channel to Tehran to circumvent US sanctions on the country. Secretary Pompeo pointed out that: “To continue to create mechanisms to fund the world’s largest state sponsor of terror is disastrous policy and I hope they will reconsider it. But most importantly, European businesses are voting with their checkbooks. They are leaving Iran in droves. These sanctions will be effective, they are effective, and come November 4th, they’ll be even more effective.”

Social unrest in Iran has moved beyond Tehran into small towns in the countryside. The chaos created by the Islamic, Republic, the government of Iran, is collapsing its economy. The rial, Iran’s currency is falling with 150,000 rial to 1 US dollar. US sanctions are pressuring Iran. The leadership’s poor treatment of the Iranian people, combined with the billions it spends on funding terrorist activity across the globe, is creating a tenuous situation which may foster change in the country. Secretary Pompeo recently said the “American people are going to stand with the Iranian people.” The ayatollah has in the past stated that Iran requires hostility with the United States. It makes diplomatic negotiations with this perspective difficult, according to Brian Hook, Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State and Special Representative for Iran. He added that Iran historically comes to the table only after heavy pressure from other countries. While it is too early to expect or predict regime change, US sanctions do appear to be impacting the country and its leadership.

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TERRORISM AND IRAN

The State Department released the first report produced by the Iran Action Group. It’s titled Outlaw Regime: A Chronicle of Iran’s Destructive Activities. The report examines Iran’s involvement in terrorism, Iran’s missile program, their illicit financial activities, Iran’s threats to maritime security, Iran’s threats to cyber security, human rights abuses in Iran, and the systematic destruction of Iran’s environment by this regime.  The report notes that the Iranian people lack clean water due to the environmental degradation incurred through official corruption, failed government management and bad environmental policies. Protesters typically are jailed or killed for their environmental views.

 

CHINA

Dr. Christopher Ashley Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, spoke recently to the FBI-Department of Commerce Conference on Counter-Intelligence and Export Control about China’s long-term political and military goals. He said: “China has for a great many years been diligently engaged in a long-term strategy to regain the global power and influence Chinese leaders believe were lost in the 19th century to Western imperialist powers. The stated objective of the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy is not merely to acquire power and influence for itself on the world stage, but in fact to displace U.S. power and influence as China reclaims the central geopolitical status and role of which the Party has convinced itself that China was robbed in the 19th Century by Western imperialism.”

Ford confirmed that China has a goal of achieving great power status and total dominance in East Asia by 2049. China’s President Xi Jinping publicly calls the coming two decades a “period of strategic opportunity.” Xi views world conditions as ripe for achieving high level technical advances across its economy and, in particular, in its development of an offensive military posture capable of conquering territory in East Asia. China acquires much of its state-of-the-art military technology through its theft of intellectual property from the west, along with tech transfer, joint research and development projects with foreign firms and collaboration with foreign universities.

DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media, which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.  Each Saturday, she presents key updates on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department.